#south korean art
IL LEE, BL-105, 2008, ballpoint pen on canvas, 28 x 43 inches (71.1 x 109.2 cm)
IL LEE, BL-120, 2011, ballpoint pen on canvas, 82 x 117 inches (208.3 x 297.2 cm)
IL LEE, BL-094, 2008, ballpoint pen on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
Il Lee (1952) is a Korean American contemporary artist currently living in New York City. He is best known for working almost exclusively in the medium of ballpoint pen on paper and canvas. Lee began working with ballpoint pens during his time at Pratt. His earlier works were all drawn on paper, but in recent years he has begun to work on larger primed canvases. His work is minimalist in style. It has been described as “deceptively casual,” and has been linked to Asian calligraphy.
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Lee Gil Woo, Irrelevant Answer - Ronald on Tour
Gil Woo Lee is a South Korean painter who has varied and evolved flat into the form of “superimposed narrative” through personal analysis on time and space woven by his own media experiences and original ideas from a viewpoint of such Asian “conversion”.
His painting, which overlaps numerous traces of creation and disappearance of time and space by ritual actions, close to performances, of burning incense and searing with a hot iron, is a result of “poetic labor” as Georg Lukacs mentioned. On the flat obtained by labor-like hand work, the artist crosses and overlaps the images of Oriental and Western icons in the 20th Century.
Lee Gil Woo lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
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Ecriture No.970430 1997 | Mixed Media with Korean Hanji Paper on Canvas
Park Seo-Bo (1931) is a South Korean painter. He is has been called the leader of Korean modernism.
“l'art pour l'art modernism” - art for arts sake.
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Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) and After
The first painting is Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) Expressionistic Massacre in Korea (1951). It depicts the 1950 Sinchon Massacre, an act of mass killing carried out by South Korean and/or American forces in the town of Sinchon located in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea. Though the events are still much debated, the victims appear to have been communist sympathizers and North Korean civilians, including a large number of children.
In the 40’s Picasso joined the French Communist Party and remained a loyal member of the Communist Party until his death.
The second is South Korean Oh Yun’s Hope for Unification, 1985. I have no additional information. In the beginning there were two clans such as their is now.
The Third painting, Catch and Kill a North Korean Soldier is just a painting made by some South Korean elementary student likely in the 1980s.
The fourth painting is a North Korean propaganda poster criticizing American Imperialism sometime near the end or after the war.
The last picture is History of Pro-Democracy Movements (1985), displayed in Seoul National University.
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Bridging Home - South Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s ‘Bridging Home’ is an installation built between two houses in the Liverpool, UK. The structure is designed as a traditional Korean sense, which is planted above ground, at an angle. The building explores the affects of living in an interconnected society upon the psychology of the individual and the community.
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